Reviewer:
DeTrixsta
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November 29, 2015
Subject:
Van Beuren Studios/RKO Radio Pictures re-issues
Popular Film Fun Just before prohibition went into effect! A gem from Chaplin's "Golden Dozen", but this is a dupe void of original credits & the score is a bit out of sync--- I don't understand how people find this vintage pop music "wacky".. I think they mean "hot dance" or "Jazzy".
Nor can I understand why people would complain about period appropriate music to a VINTAGE film! Silent films were not meant to be silent, and in 1931 Chaplin made "City Lights" with a music score, So Van Beuren Studios/RKO Radio Pictures re-issued some of Chaplin's 1917 Mutual films with new music scores by The Gene Rhodemitch Orchestra, who also created soundtracks & scores for the current cartoons of the studio.. (hence the cock-crows & slide whistles) but it was a clever money-making idea, as those prints have circulated for almost 80 years!
The songs used in the score do fit the action in a meaningful way, much like a Vitaphone score from the 1920's. I am guessing it's all lost on us today, but If you would watch a vintage film, why wouldn't you want the matching vintage score? The soundtrack features many popular songs from 1920 right to 1932! It's like a pop music video! Some of the tunes include:
I'm Just A Vagabond Lover (Opening credits in 1932 prints)
Happy Feet
For He's A Jolly Good Fellow/We Won't Get Home Until Morning
Business In F
Ain't She Sweet?
Shim-Me-Sha- Wobble
Aufedersein my Dear
How Dry I Am
Come Easy Go Easy Love
Sing a New Song
Apache/Adagio dance
Tiger Rag
Happy Days Are Here Again
Clap Hands, Here Comes Charley (End titles in some prints)
Original Release date 16 April 1917
19 August 1932 (sound re-Issue by Van Beuren Studios/RKO Radio Pictures)